Author's Note: Yes, this is another chapter full of little extra scenes, mostly written by Bellatrix who has also been a big help guest-writing parts of the other chapters too. This chapter was more her doing than mine, so make sure to thank her for all her hard work! I hope you all enjoy this little extra in anticipation of the regular one that'll be released tomorrow!

Also, I must mention that just because it's the summer, that doesn't mean I can release two chapters a week. I'm not a student so it being summer makes no difference to my schedule. The only reason an extra is coming out this week is because of Bellatrix's help since she pretty much wrote this entire chapter with only slight modifications from me and my other plot helpers on discord.

Babylshenanigans


Shared Lunch

Rimuru POV

Several of my classmates are in line behind me, gawking at the menu that only students ranked He or above could order from.

"I wonder what Rimuru is going to order… The grilled burger with deathly sour pickles?" quietly muses Lead.

"Oh, for sure the poached eggs and bloodberry jam on toast." confidently states Jazz.

"The w-waffles with ice-scream look really good…" stammers out Keroli.

"She'll order the five-horn ox steak, with a side of fries!" yells Sabnock as if it was obvious.

I can't help but smirk at how obviously they're thinking with their stomachs.

I guess it won't hurt if I help them out this one time…

Going up to the counter where the higher-ranked students are served, I place my order: "I'll have the grilled burger with deathly sour pickles, the poached eggs and bloodberry jam on toast, the waffles with ice-scream, the five-horn ox steak with a side of fries… and three servings of the hellfire fried noodles with extra crispy bacon."

Their eyes light up in sparkling delight.

"I usually only do this for Iruma, so just this once, okay?"


Red With Anger

Jazz POV

"Hey, if the ring Iruma always wears came from a rank owl, where did yours come from?" I ask Rimuru about the ring on her pinky finger. It's a habit, it's hard for people in my family not to eye other people's jewelry.

"It's a communication ring I got from a cereal box," Rimuru explains, holding up her hand so I can get a better look at it.

"Oh?" I ask, surprised since it looks awful fancy to have come from a cereal box.

"If you speak into it, an angry man yells at you in a foreign language," Rimuru says with a smirk.

That's…weird…

"Uh…"

She holds out the ring for me. "You wanna give it a go? I know some words in his language you can say to get him really mad!" Rimuru says, her small mischievous smirk progressing into a full-blown evil grin.

"Sounds like something I've gotta try," I say as she places the ring on my palm.

Rimuru writes down the pronunciations for some foreign words and phrases, and after giving me the list activates the communication ring.

(AN: means another language is being spoken.)

" Hello? Who is this? " speaks the ring in a stern male voice.

" Bald! " I yell, one of the words on the list, before passing it to one of my classmates.

" What? "

" Bald! "

" Fuck you, my hair is fabulous! Who in the hell is this?! Turn on your video feed! "

" Diablo is stronger! "

" Rimuru put you up to this, didn't he? "

" No-life pervert! "

" Now listen here you son of a bitch! I'm going to- "

" Bald! "

" -find out how you got this ring, and then I'm going to kill you slowly and painfully! "

We all get some words and phrases in, not understanding a thing that we're saying, but whatever it is, it sure is pissing this dude off. We all laugh at his fury, though for some reason Iruma has gone white as a sheet.

" I can hear kids laughing! Where the hell are you?! "

" Mizeri and Raine aren't loyal!

" I can barely understand your awful pronunciation, and your accent is weird! Do you even know what you're saying?! "

" Weakest Demon Lord! "

" Rimuru, I know you're responsible for this! I know you can hear me! "

" No-life pervert! "

The ring goes silent as the angry man 'hangs up' as one might say.

"Rimuru, are you insane?!" the girl's twin asks fearfully.

Rimuru can't respond as she's having a severe case of the giggles, trembling on the floor, and clutching her sides. "Hehehehehe… I'm sorry, Iruma, it's just… hehehehehehe…"


The Strongest Student

Asmodeus POV

"Come on Azz, you're acting like you're afraid of hitting me! Be more like Sabnock here!" Rimuru calls out to me from the middle of Royal One's battle room.

I'm hesitant to attack Master Iruma's sister, but Sabnock has no qualms; he grins and launches himself into a chain of attacks, each swing of his axe flowing into the next, not intent on giving Rimuru a moment's reprieve. Rimuru deftly parries each blow with her katana, though is pushed back little by little.

"Good, good!" Rimuru praises. "Using your strength and reach like this makes counterattacking far more difficult. But you can't let your guard down!"

Rimuru finds an opening in Sabnock's assault, jabbing him in the chest with her katana hard enough to make him stagger. Were it not for the invisible barrier around the blade, Sabnock would have instead received a mortal wound, so I'm a little nervous about the prospect of being skewered should there be any fault in the barrier magic.

But to be praised by Rimuru for my efforts, what a lovely feeling that would be! And if this oaf Sabnock is training in combat, I can't let him outshine me; that's part of why I decided to join his training session with Rimuru, after all.

"En garde, Rimuru!" I call out, leaping into the air and coming down with a horizontal slash of my flame sword. She ducks under it, and kicks me in the stomach, hard. I'm knocked to the floor, doubled over in pain.

"Oh my goodness! That was way more of an impact than I expected, are you okay?" Rimuru asks with concern, parrying Sabnock's resumed assault without even looking.

"I… I can see why Master Iruma has us train our legs…by walking to school…" I gasp out, doing my best to hide the pain with a proud smile; I certainly learned from that, at least.

"Ha! Try to last a little longer than that, Asmodeus!" taunts Sabnock, still hammering away at Rimuru's stalwart defense.

"You weren't any better at protecting yourself when I first started training you, remember?" snubs Rimuru with a smirk.

"Hmm… Very well then! Asmodeus, walk this path of pain with me until you can match me in combat!" says Sabnock with pride.

"You don't have to call my training a 'path of pain'…" sighs Rimuru.


The Perfect Snooze

Iruma POV

Is it just me, or has she become lazier?

Rain patters on the windows of Rimuru's room and on the bed lies Ranga, who has been acting as her familiar while she attends Babyls. The huge, slumbering wolf is curled up around Rimuru, who has fallen asleep clinging to his fur.

As comfortable as she looks, I can't imagine she'd be too happy if she woke up and found I had gone to Babyls without her.

"Hey, Rimuru, I think it's about time you woke up…" I softly speak as I climb up onto her bed, and lightly jiggle her. She doesn't seem to notice at all, so I sit next to her and try to gently pry her away from Ranga. She just mumbles and clings his fur tighter, so I'm really not sure what to do without being rough.

Gosh, Ranga's fur sure is soft…

Opera POV

"Sir, are you sure going in there uninvited is a good idea?" I ask, ears laid flat.

"My Iruma is never late for breakfast, and I can't think of where he might be!" Sullivan states confidently.

He steps inside the scary Demon Lord's room… and suddenly clutches at his heart, reeling as if struck by a horrible curse.

"Sir!" I call out in panic, but he signals he's okay.

"Sorry about that, my heart just melted. Figuratively of course. Take a look inside…"

Hesitantly I peek inside and see Sullivan's grandchildren nestled in the fur of that wolf-beast belonging to Rimuru; both of them fast asleep.

"Picture time!" exclaims Sullivan, and I fetch a camera, snapping shots of him with the twins in the background. He changes pose with each shot, eventually laying on top of Ranga, the fur so thick that he almost seems to sink in.

"Will that be enough photos for you, sir? … Sir?"

"Zzz…"

I can't believe it… He's somehow fallen asleep. What is it about this fur that makes it so enticing?

Diablo POV

I'm relaxing in the study enjoying a good book on this unusually quiet morning when I hear a boy start calling "Iruma!" from outside the mansion gates.

At first, I choose to ignore it, but then I hear a girl joining in as well, so with a sigh, I set down my book and step outside.

As I appear before the two kids, Clara nearly drops her umbrella, and Alice is greatly startled. In a sphere around my person, the rain spatters and vaporizes, not a drop of it allowed to reach me.

"Huoh! Scary!" says Clara in a huff.

"You two must be Alice and Clara. Have you come to pick up Rimuru and Iruma?" I ask courteously, as Rimuru has previously expressed his wishes that I treat these two with respect. It pains me to not address my Lord without his proper titles, but this is per Lord Rimuru's request when interacting with the residents here unaware of his lofty status.

"Yes, Iruma hasn't been responding to my texts, and he's never been this late for school before! Do you know if he's okay?" asks Alice, clearly in a hurry for answers.

What an impolite tone. Though I shall still act graciously, as my Lord wishes.

"I will go check on his whereabouts now," I state calmly, before teleporting just outside Lord Rimuru's room as everyone in the mansion seems to have gathered there.

Curiously, it appears that Lord Rimuru, Iruma, Sullivan, and Opera; everyone in the mansion has fallen asleep tucked into Sir Ranga's fur.

If only I had such luxurious fur, my Lord might use me as a bed… As precious as he looks, I ought to wake him up, he dislikes being left to oversleep as it tends to create more of a hassle for him later.

"Ciel, aren't you meant to have woken him up by now?"

[[I would feel too guilty about disturbing Master when he looks so comfortable.]]

"I know the feeling… Then let's make it a group effort, I'll take him out of bed and you wake him up."

I put my arms under Lord Rimuru and gently lift him out of Sir Ranga's fur, and he wakes up, looking a little confused at first.

"Huh? Why are you holding me? … Also, what the hell? When did they all get here?" Lord Rimuru asks, glancing at the other residents of this mansion that so rudely joined him during his slumber.

Before I can respond, Lord Rimuru suddenly looks wide awake. "Woah, look at the time! Ranga, can you get us there?"

"Yes!" Sir Ranga declares as he bolts upright, flinging everyone off him. Lord Rimuru mounts the wolf and I seat a still-dazed Iruma behind him, and then Ranga races to Babyls like a streak of lightning, picking up Alice and Clara outside the gate.

I gave a smile at how energetic they all were and then turned to Opera and Sullivan. "So, you thought you could invite yourselves to sleep in my Lord's room? Clearly, you both need to be taught a very strict lesson."

Sullivan may be an old friend of mine, as well as our current host, but that does not mean he can show such disrespect to Lord Rimuru without consequence!

Seeing the fear in Opera and Sullivan's eyes made me chuckle, and with that, I began my lecture; my Lord would likely be displeased if I used physical discipline without his permission.

"Now you see, Lord Rimuru is an existence above all, who has graciously committed himself to the protection of your grandson. The power he commands is beyond your comprehension, it would take barely an ounce of what he has at his disposal to conquer this whole dimension. Where my Lord is resting becomes the most sacred place in all of existence, so for someone only incidentally connected to him to sneak into his chambers as he sleeps is a grave offense. Such a thing should only be permissible to those he shows a far greater level of trust and care for, and you two have greatly overstepped your boundaries by joining him in his sleep, so I hope you enjoy this hour-long lecture I have for you on the greatness of Lord Rimuru…"


Big Shot

Iruma POV

I'm headed over to the cafeteria when suddenly I hear someone behind me.

"Oy, you!" a hostile-sounding male voice calls out.

"Me?" I ask.

I turn around and see Elof, the same boy that almost punched me in the face when I was under the effect of that 'evil cycle' spell. He's looming over me with his hands in his pockets and a menacing grin.

Yikes!

"So, you think you're a big shot now, huh? You and all the other misfit losers got put into Royal One, and you don't care who you mess with because you've got your freak of a sister to bail you out. You must be feeling pretty cocky right now…"

"I don't… I… um…" I stutter, finding my words hard to get out under the pressure.

I'm shaking too much to do or say anything, and it doesn't even occur to me to use the telepathy on my ring to call for help.

"But what's this? I can't see your sister anywhere around!" Elof taunts, looking around exaggeratedly before then looking back at me and then pounding his fist into his palm. "So this seems like the perfect time to teach you to not mess with a high-ranking demon!"

Suddenly, I'm struck with a sense of imminent danger. Not from Elof, but from something else! I tackle Elof, knocking us both to the ground right before a heavy stone pillar pulverizes the ground where he was standing.

That was way too close!

Elof looks shocked when he sees how close he came to being crushed but then puts on a neutral expression as he stands up and tries to recover his pride. "Tch… You've got some insane luck, you know? I'll leave you be… for now."

Insane luck…?

As Elof walks off, I look over to the wall that the pillar fell from. The base of the pillar is still there, but rather than the crumbled stone I expected to see where the pillar broke, instead I see… a clean cut.

"You alright?" Rimuru asks, helping me to my feet.

"When did you get here?" I ask, surprised by her sudden appearance.

"I thought you might appreciate my company after a scary thing like that!"

"Er… Well, thanks for saving me there…"

"What could you possibly mean?" she says with a smile and chuckle.

I look over at the destroyed pillar, concerned. "That."

"Alright, you got me. Don't worry, I'll make sure to give whoever goes to fix it a hand later, okay?"

"Okay… Are you sure there wasn't a better way you could have solved that?"

"Even if there was, this was funnier!"

Demon Lords are crazy…


Bigger is Better

Eiko POV

"Sabnock! Can I ask a favor?"

"Oh? What is it?"

"You can make weapons with your bloodline magic, right?"

"Indeed! Do you need something made?"

"Well… watching Rimuru fight at the festival was so amazing! She blew up everyone with a rainbow of colors! So, I kinda wanna try out what she was doing and be as cool as her…"

"Ah, you want a firework cannon like hers then?"

"Yeah! If… if that's okay…"

"That might take a bit of work, usually I just make simple weapons... but I think it's admirable that a pipsqueak like yourself wants to fight, so I'll do it!"

He's so reliable!

After school, I spend a couple of hours with him as he works away, magically creating components that I help him assemble together.

The end result is beautiful, with belt-fed mechanisms of polished metal designed to unleash a spectacle of beauty and pain; it's so heavy that I can barely hold it though.

It's really a testament to how strong Rimuru is, that she could fly so fast carrying two weapons like these…

"Thank you so much for this Sabnock!"

"Make good use of it, Eiko."

I happily hum as I start heading home, very satisfied with my new weapon.

I'm like, ten times cooler just for having this, right?

Part of the reason I want to feel 'cool' is that I completely flubbed my first interaction with Rimuru; she caught me stalking her, I could barely speak, and I even passed out from her touching me! I wanna show Rimuru that I can be cool like her, someone who rains armageddon upon all her foes.

As I pass by a classroom, a group of boys chatting with each other catches my attention…

"Wow, that's certainly a lot bigger than average…"

"Bigger than yours, for sure!"

"It's not about the size, it's about how you use it."

"I have two!"

"Show off…"

Are they seriously talking about what I think they are? Ew ew ew, they're so gross and weird! Why are they doing this at school?! I want to stop them, but I don't have the courage… Although, who needs courage when you have a gun?

Brimming with newfound confidence, I burst through the door shouting "Pull your pants up, you weirdos!"

" "Huh?" "

With shock and embarrassment, I realize that I let my imagination run a little too wild, as I find none of the weird and inappropriate behavior I expected; only boys sitting around with literal weapons laid on tables.

"Oh, uh, sorry… What group is this?" I timidly ask.

"We're the newly formed, although unofficial, Aerial Combat Battler," one of the boys says.

"So, all that stuff you were talking about just now was…"

"We're comparing the firework cannons we all recently got. We're gonna make this a new sport, with or without the Student Council's approval!"

They're doing exactly the same thing as me…

"Oh, I see... Well, I might be interested, and I have a firework cannon too…"

I place the weapon Sabnock gave me on a table, with more force than I intended as it's so heavy.

"Wow, who would have thought that a girl's would be bigger than any of ours?" says another of the boys.

"How… how are you so bad at wording things?"

Character Casting

Rimuru POV

"The court has carefully listened to both arguments and ruled in favor of the defendant, finding that it is, in fact, legal to farm glump-glumps on private land." I declare, smacking my gavel against the sound block.

"Awrooo!" howls Ranga, the proud lawyer victorious in winning the case for his client Iruma.

I got roped into one of Clara's strange games. It's weird and kinda embarrassing, but also a little fun, I have to admit. For the sake of these kids and their smiles, I don't mind playing along.

"You're a terrible lawyer, Valac!" complains Azz. "Ranga was just barking, and his arguments made more sense than yours!"

"You thought I was your lawyer, but really I was a tycoon planning on opening a million glump-glump farms!" Clara says, revealing the big twist. "And you and Iruma are glump-glumps!"

"You traitor!" shouts Azz, and he and Iruma start running. Clara and Ranga are hot on their tail, running after them with nets.

"So, what am I supposed to be?" I ask, sensing that the court scene has already been completely forgotten. This is how games devised by Clara always tend to go. I don't normally participate but I decided to give in to her begging for once and join these kids in their silly pretend play.

"You're supposed to be the farm cat who scares the tractors to save the glump-glumps!" answers Clara.

"The farm cat scares the tractors? Are you and Ranga the tractors? I'm so confused…" I mutter, completely lost. I'm too old to keep up with this craziness…

I'm tempted to leave the kids to their silly play, but then I see Iruma laughing and having fun as he's chased, delighted to take part in this fiasco of a game. I can't help but be a little moved, smiling at the scene.

I suppose that after spending so long looking after him, his happiness has become precious to me. Please, don't let any of my capricious draconic relatives appear out of nowhere and see this…

I get between the 'tractors' and the 'glump-glumps', striking my most feline pose at great pain to myself.

"Meow."

Clara and Ranga crash and tumble at my command, but as soon as she's regained her balance, Clara declares "Okay, now you're space emperor Floof-Goof the 52nd!"

I'm suddenly a space emperor? What could possibly be next?